Word: function
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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State Department Spokesman Hodding Carter III warned that the summonses hindered the "ability of U.S. journalists to function freely" in Moscow. He added: "We hope the Soviet authorities will reflect very carefully on the broader implications of this issue." The State Department's initial retaliation in the case was low-key. U.S. officials quietly summoned eight Soviet correspondents in Washington to "have their credentials reviewed." Some were out of town, but two very nervous Tass reporters and one from Izvestiya appeared at the office of Kenneth Brown, director of the Office of Press Relations, for a solemn 35-minute...
...would be East Jerusalem, which is predominantly Arab. But negotiations that threaten to divide the Holy City once more would be long, painful and extraordinarily difficult. Until the Jerusalem question is solved, the new entity would use a West Bank city, perhaps Ramallah, as a temporary capital; it would function much as Bonn does for West Germany...
Though surprisingly little is known about the spleen, a small organ located beneath the left rib cage, it has at least one important function: filtering bacteria and foreign material from the blood. That function makes the spleen particularly important in warding off serious bacterial infections and meningitis in children, who have not yet developed immunity to certain microorganisms. Yet doctors have long been puzzled by the fact that such infections, relatively common in children whose spleens have been removed in the treatment of cancer or blood disease, seldom show up in youngsters whose spleens have ruptured and then been removed...
...sentence with 'I think' ... If you begin with 'I feel' you can get away with atrocities." Group-sex enthusiasts seem to spend so much time and energy in pouty encounters that Seligson comes to feel like an anthropologist listening to aborigines debate the possible function of an eggbeater. Still, she may have tarried too long among the Californicators. At one point she wonders: "How do I even know if I'm having a successful sex life?" Though most of the book depicts surfer-stewardess relationships among muddled narcissists, Seligson concludes that the "valiant gropings...
...decide to sell out and leave for good, the one that you rarely read about in the newspapers because nobody ever gets killed and it's mostly just broken windows and jaws, and really, who cares? because it happens every damn week. In South Jamaica every biological and social function is depressing--eating, breathing, getting up in the morning to look for a job, not finding it, rolling the drunks outside the railroad station...